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ચુમાલીસમું ] તપસ્વી હીરલા આ ગચ્ચદ્રસુરિ
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who wished very much to become emperor of India, and the only practicable way for him was to die first, and be born again. For this purpose he made desperate tappasia, wishing to remember everything he know in the present generation. This could not be fully granted but he was indulged with writing on brass plate a few things which he wished more particularly to remember. Then he was directed to bury plate, and promissed that he should remember the plate in the next generation. Mukunda Went to Allahbad, buried the plate, and then buried himself. Nine months afterwards he was born in the character of Akbar, who as soon as he ascended the throne went to Allahbad, and easily found the spot, where the brass plate was buried.
Mill's British Indian Vol. II. P. 152.
The translation of the inscription on the brass plate is as follows:
In the Samvat year 1598, on the 12th day of Second fortnight of the month of Magh II, Mukunda Brahmachari whose food was nothing but milk. Sacrificed myself at Prag (Allahbad) the place of worship, with the design that I should become ruler of the whole world.
The above date correspond with the 27th January A. D. 1542, and Akbar was born on Sunday, the 15th October, the same year being three or four days less than nine months after the above circumstances.
An Oriental Biographical Dictionary by Thomas William Beale.
London 1894.
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